The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-18
GENERALLY SUCCESSFUL.


applause.l don't blame the poor deluded
Orangemen who are making this fight to-
day. Here a man was knocked down
by blow from stick
and free fight followed
among the Orangemen, who again set up
dismal howlingl We to-day are party of
law and order, and we defy anybody to deny
1t [Cheers and groans.l
Several voices cried 'Bravo O'Brien ~
The heart of Ireland is at your back ~
shouted another, land the heart of Canada"
crled another. A man from the
Orange party here got in front of the plat
form, among the Nationalists, and began
singing ''The Boyne Water" His silk hat
was crushed in by those around him, and
he disappeared under the platform bruised
and bloody.
MORE MUSICAL JACKASSES.
Il have often" continued Mr. O'Brien,
met lackasses [laughterl whose sound
would be more musical than that of these
miserable and misguided wretches who
came here to destroy that freedom of speech
which they boast they love so much. fDeri-
slve iaughter.] If they have got anything
to say for Lord Lansdowne let their best
man come on this platform and |
VIII guarantee him a hearing Gcheersl,
but they are afraid [groans, Kisses and cries
OF God Save the Queen'] because they are
In the wrong and we are bold and defiant
because we have right, truth and justice on
our side. loud and prolonged applause,
mingled with kissing and groaning. /
This demonstration takes the last sod from
under Lord Lansdowne's feet, for by it he
confesses that he has no better answer to
our terrible arraignment that rowdyism,
blacksuardisn, vuigarity and the ignorance
OF this wretched and despicable crew.
Loud cheers.]
HALL OPEN TO ALL
Il am not at all sorry that the
gentlemen of Toronto CORPORATION
have broken their contract as Lord Lans-
downe broke his, and have refused the hos
pitality of st. Andrews Hall. There is one
hall, thank God, from which they cannot
shut us out-this open vault of heaven,
which the Great Architect of the Universe
has built, and we have tale to tell which
we need not be afraid or ashamed
to tell in the free air of
heaven and in the open light of day. One
thing is certain and that is that Canadians
demand an answer to the specific and terri
bic accusations we have made against Lord
Lansdowne. Refusing us the use of public
hall and boycotting us is not an answer
which will satisfy the intelligent public
opinion of Canada. Threatening us with
violence if we dared exercise the right OF
think nobody realizes more keenly than
Lord Lansdowne to-day that the frothy
declaration of orators at Saturdays meet
ing is not an answer which will save Lord
Lansdowne from the condemnation of en-
Gghtened and liberty loving men.
MEANING OF SATURDAYS MEETING.
''The upshot of Saturdays meeting was a
vote of confidence in the Tory coercion gov
ernment of Lord Salisbury-that govern
ment whose cruel and abominable coercion
bill has just been condemned by the Cana
dian Parliament by decisive and over
whelming Majority, a vote of confidence in
more convincing proof of how completely
our opponents are out of sympathy with the
vast masses of the Canadian people.
''As for the epithets Goodwin. Smith [hisses]
has been pleased to shower upon Newell,
SO far as my humble personality is of the
smallest consequence in this matter, | am
content to be judged by my countrymen,
who know me and can read every thought
of my heart. [Applause.] Judged by the
announcement from Northeast Cork in this
mornings cablegram they don't seem to
share Goodwin Smiths opinion of me. / am
quite content to set the opinion of Arch
bishop Croke side by side with that of Gold
win Smith, and let the Canadian public
judge for themselves which is more likely
to be an unbiased judge, the great Arch
bishop or an angry and disappointed profess
sor upon another occasion.
NO DEFENSE NEEDED.
II should be willing enough to enter into
a defense of ourselves and of our great move
ment, if, indeed any defense is needed at
this time of the day of the movement, which
has b, won the great heart and mind of Mr..
Gladstone, and to which the whole energies
h
eral party in England are now
pledged. Loud applause.l But that is not
the question The question is, whether
Lord Lansdowne is carrying out a most
cruel and inhuman system of evictions in
Ireland rather than yield concessions which
were suggested and recommended by arbi-
tration, authorized by his own agent What
have his friends to say for him, and
what has he to say for himselfl First they
say you have no business to criticise Lord
Lansdowne at all; that it is something like
treason and blasphemy not to accept every
thing he says, and docs with unmurmuring
reverence and awe as if he was sent down
from heaven to govern you.
ANTAGoNIsTIC TO THE CONSTITUTION
'That is theory so antagonistic to the
British constitutional law that | wonder the
ghosts of the men who built up the British
constitution do rot rise up from their graves
and protest against it. Loud applause
There was one thing thoroughly Hibernian
about Saturdays meeting, and that was
that although the meeting was called to
insist that nobody had any right to
pronounce upon the fitness of any Governor
General sent from England, the very first
resolutions they themselves passed, was the
most sweeping expression of their opinion
of Lord Lansdownes fitness, thus doing the
very same thing themselves which they
insisted nobody in Canada had right to do
[laughter1, and Lord Lansdowne writes them
a letter in the newspapers to-day
thanking them and declaring ti1cm
quite right. Laughter and applause.1 If
the gentlemen in Queens Park indorsed the
coercion policy Of Lord Salisbury they are
welcome to their opinion. IL they think
that Lord Lansdowne is a rackrenter and
has thereby additional fitness to be Governor
General they are entitled TO say so, but the
people OF Canada are equally entitled TO
differ with them loud applausel, and to
declare that a man who tramples upon
resolutions Of the Canadian Parliament with
respect to ireland is no longer fit TO govern
nation of generous and freedom-loving
men. IApplauseJ
TEE IRISH NUISANCE.
''The Toronto papers speak about the
Irish nuisance God knows it pains us TO
the heart TO be obliged to worry you with
the sorrows Of our poor people, and subject
YOU to such test Of the sincereity of your
sympathy with ireland, but it isnot we who
have introduced Irish nuisances' into Can
ada. loud and prolonged applause The
other day at Montreal stood